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OLPC, Microsoft working on dual-boot Windows / Linux system

By Donald Melanson on windows




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We already knew Microsoft was at least toying around with putting Windows on the OLPC XO, but it looks like things have just gotten quite a bit more serious, with the OLPC folks now saying that they're working "very closely" with Microsoft to develop a dual-boot Windows / Linux system for the laptop. What's more, Nick Neg himself reportedly said that the version of Windows that's now up and running on on the XO is "very fast" and "very, very successful." There's no word just yet as to when we might actually see such a system be released, however, but OLPC is apparently now talking with Microsoft and "possibly" the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation about putting the XO to use in some of the education programs Microsoft runs in developing countries, a possibility that Negroponte says is "really cooking at the moment."




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[Carl Tollander]

The problem with a low memory machine that dual boots, is that there's
this thing that you never use taking up precious space.  For the XO
folks right now, its about the bucks and hanging onto their core of
open-source developers.  (I bet they can get another $6M out of MS
before they run into "philosophical differences", but that trick will
stop working after awhile).  I still think they would do well to restart
the G1G1 program or otherwise find some way for somewhat more
inner-adult fingers to get at one in the US.  (In the last week  I  
could have sold about 20 of them in Santa Fe coffee shops were they
available and were I of the mind.  No one seemed to mind the keyboard
size.)  Remember the Honda Element; the demographic that buys it is not
necessarily the demographic Marketing thought it was designed for.

That said, I just purchased a 16GB SD card (cheap!) for it and am
thinking about bluetooth dongles and  drivers and maybe an Opera browser
suite if that will do the MathML.   (When we get a little more
experience with it I might consider it as a Resartus platform).  Josh T.
and I played with the mesh networking and sharing activities at
post-lunch coffee today - interface is still a little rough, but we got
the net and shared activities to work and there is a sense that the GUI
issues will improve a lot in the coming weeks. (the Tmobile G1G1 freebee
year account worked just fine at Borders)  It's always reassuring to
watch Linux boot and have access to a real shell.  The trick is to not
think of it as a device like any other.  'Any color so long as it's green'.

Time for a club?

Carl

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> Greetings, all --
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> FYI
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>     OLPC, Microsoft working on dual-boot Windows / Linux system
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> By Donald Melanson on windows
> Filed under: Laptops <http://www.engadget.com/category/laptops/>
> <http://news.yahoo.com/s/infoworld/20080109/tc_infoworld/94485>
> We already knew Microsoft was at least toying around
> <http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/06/microsoft-to-test-out-windows-xp-on-olpc-xo/>
> with putting Windows on the OLPC XO, but it looks like things have
> just gotten quite a bit more serious, with the OLPC folks now saying
> that they're working "very closely" with Microsoft to develop a
> dual-boot Windows / Linux system for the laptop. What's more, Nick Neg
> himself reportedly said that the version of Windows that's now up and
> running on on the XO is "very fast" and "very, very successful."
> There's no word just yet as to when we might actually see such a
> system be released, however, but OLPC is apparently now talking with
> Microsoft and "possibly" the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation about
> putting the XO to use in some of the education programs Microsoft runs
> in developing countries, a possibility that Negroponte says is "really
> cooking at the moment."
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[Marcus G. Daniels]

Carl Tollander wrote:
> For the XO
> folks right now, its about the bucks and hanging onto their core of
> open-source developers.
This would seem like a good opportunity for the Mono guys to step in and
build a bridge between the open source and Windows camp (and for
Microsoft to help).   Here's some work in that direction..

http://tquerci.blogspot.com/2008/01/mono-on-olpc-one-laptop-per-child.html